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Intro PDF
Intro PDF
1. Spelling
2. Grammar
3. Vocabulary
b. Thesaurus
B. Solution to problems
A. Prehistory
a. larynx
b. Neanderthal
c. esophagus/airway
a. Neolithic Period
b. Finnish/Eskimo-Aleut
c. Indo-European/Uralic/Amerind ("dog")
d. "tik"
B. History of English
1. Indo-Europeans
1) Vedas
2) Sanskrit/Latin/Greek
". . . no philologer could examine all three languages [Sanskrit, Latin and Greek] without
believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists."
b. "Indo-European"
2. Indo-European languages
1) Germanic (English)
2) Italic (Latin)
3) Hellenic (Greek)
3. Period of Modern English (= Anglo-Saxon Germanic)
a. Germanic foundation
1) Celtic
a) Manchester, Lancaster
a) Normans
c) "Anglo-Norman"
d) "Middle English"
1. COGNATE(S):
2. DERIVATIVE:
3. DOUBLET(S):